[conspire] idle computer

[Tony Godshall]

Oops.

Retry.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Tony Godshall <tony at of.net> wrote:
> ...
>>> > Why does a computer that is busy copying files think it is "not in
>>> > use"?
>>>
>>> I honestly don't know what you're referring to, when you say the
>>> computer thinks it's not in use.
>
> I think the usual trigger is no mouse or keyboard activity
>
> Or it could be low CPU activity.  File copying takes very little
> CPU unless its on a sophisticated filesystem that does
> deduplication or compression or software RAID.
>
> Computers that do more server-style tasks should be

oops.

... should be configured so they don't go into suspend
or hibernate mode.


>
>> I believe he is talking about the suspend action, which is now built
>> into the gnome interface allong with everything else it should do.
>
> Check System, Preferences, Power Management and System, Preferences,
> Screen Saver, Power Management

... if using Gnome UI.  Which graphical interface are you using?

Tony